Casa Loma
A financier spent the equivalent of $100 million on a Gothic Revival castle in Toronto — and never finished it.
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Henry Pellatt's 98-room, 64,700-square-foot mansion was the largest private residence in Canada. Construction halted when World War I began, leaving the third floor unfinished. The building comes loaded with oddities: pipe organ shafts, a central vacuum system, and an oven sized to roast an ox whole.
What to look for
- Two secret passages concealed inside Pellatt's ground-floor office
- The vertical shafts built to carry pipe organ pipes through the walls
- The stables complex north of the main house, where Pellatt actually lived during construction
Now a historic house museum; available for private rental on evenings after public hours close. Sits at 140 metres above sea level, 66 metres above Lake Ontario.
Casa Loma is one of 19 sights worth the detour in Toronto, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Toronto pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Toronto
- CN TowerFor 32 years, a railway company's broadcast antenna was the tallest free-standing structure on Earth.
- BMO FieldThe 2007 soccer-specific stadium that grew into Toronto's outdoor dual-sport arena — and now holds 45,736 for the 2026 FIFA World Cup under the temporary name Toronto Stadium.
- Scotiabank ArenaA 1941 postal sorting depot on Bay Street that became Canada's busiest arena — and the most photographed spot in the country on Instagram.
- Royal Ontario MuseumCanada's largest museum packs 18 million objects — Cambrian sea creatures, East Asian art, and Art Deco clothing and design objects — into 40 galleries on Bloor Street.
- Rogers CentreThe world's first fully retractable motorized roof opened here in 1989 — and 70 hotel rooms still peer straight down onto the field.
- First Canadian PlaceFor 50 years it was Canada's tallest building — until a fellow Toronto skyscraper finally beat it in June 2025.